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I worked at this past weekend's Magnum Opus rally. I was with the radio crew for a stage finish and at the start line of another.
Things to take note of, that I saw:
- Teams really need to take note of cars that are off. Some teams were good, noting car #, car description, mileage, ok sign shown.
- Others were not so good. We would ask if they saw any cars off and I was told "No cars off" "Two cars off" "Yeah there were cars off but I don't know who or where they were". This was at a time when THERE WERE THREE CARS OFF. I recieved a direct instructions that "Insert Drivers first and last name here" was Off at so and so mileage, etc. This wasn't a problem until our stage was done and it turned out that this CAR FINISHED THE STAGE! When we (radio car) were given the Drivers Name we called that car # in and reported the location etc. It turned out to be another car. So now we at the radio car were getting all kinds of conflicting info. We had to look at the scoring sheets from the timing car / compared to our own sheets at the radio car / and finally confirm with the MTC whom was parked down the road from us. Fairly confusing for a time.
This was my first time working with a radio crew so we did make some mistakes but hopefully learned somethings.
When I worked the start (which I've done many times before) everything ran smoothly once the stage was cleared and we were allowed to start the stage. The only problem noted was how many teams just handed us a complete scorecard and didn't have it opened to our stage page.
The timing card was handed to us (there were two of us at the start line) and we looked at the card and realized that something wasn't right. There were times already filled in for a stage start???????? Quickly we realized to open the timing book to the correct page. About 5 teams had the book on the right page out of the 32 cars we started.
I know it's fairly simple but if I'd never run a rally and didn't understand where times were to go we could have EASILY filled in the stage start time on the wrong page.
Just some little things to remember. Take note of cars that are off and try and be on the correct page on the scorecard.
Brian Scott
Things to take note of, that I saw:
- Teams really need to take note of cars that are off. Some teams were good, noting car #, car description, mileage, ok sign shown.
- Others were not so good. We would ask if they saw any cars off and I was told "No cars off" "Two cars off" "Yeah there were cars off but I don't know who or where they were". This was at a time when THERE WERE THREE CARS OFF. I recieved a direct instructions that "Insert Drivers first and last name here" was Off at so and so mileage, etc. This wasn't a problem until our stage was done and it turned out that this CAR FINISHED THE STAGE! When we (radio car) were given the Drivers Name we called that car # in and reported the location etc. It turned out to be another car. So now we at the radio car were getting all kinds of conflicting info. We had to look at the scoring sheets from the timing car / compared to our own sheets at the radio car / and finally confirm with the MTC whom was parked down the road from us. Fairly confusing for a time.
This was my first time working with a radio crew so we did make some mistakes but hopefully learned somethings.
When I worked the start (which I've done many times before) everything ran smoothly once the stage was cleared and we were allowed to start the stage. The only problem noted was how many teams just handed us a complete scorecard and didn't have it opened to our stage page.
The timing card was handed to us (there were two of us at the start line) and we looked at the card and realized that something wasn't right. There were times already filled in for a stage start???????? Quickly we realized to open the timing book to the correct page. About 5 teams had the book on the right page out of the 32 cars we started.
I know it's fairly simple but if I'd never run a rally and didn't understand where times were to go we could have EASILY filled in the stage start time on the wrong page.
Just some little things to remember. Take note of cars that are off and try and be on the correct page on the scorecard.
Brian Scott